During Microsoft's MIX11 developer conference in Las Vegas, the Redmond company announcing new improvements to Windows Phone 7 that will give developers for the platform more power to get the most out of the fledgling operating system.
The introduction of multitasking and background processes to Windows Phone 7 in the upcoming 'Mango' update have clearly caught the eye of some big players in the mobile app space, with some new apps being announced today by Microsoft.
Once the subject of so many jokes, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is experiencing a bit of a revival of late with IE9 being well received amongst Windows users. Now the Redmond outfit is unleashing IE 10, in Platform Preview 1 guise.
Yes you read that right! Windows 8 Build 7850 (final M1) has managed to slip through and has landed into the wild. The Build number of the leaked 6.1.7850.0.winmain_win8m1.100922-1508_x86fre_client-enterprise_en-us.iso is 6.1.7850.0.winmain_win8m1.100922-1508 which means that it was compiled on 22nd September 2010.
It's a funny time in the world of Windows Phone 7. So much is going on right now, with NoDo bringing copy & paste to the platform and multitasking not far away, yet it's almost like people don't even know it's there. One thing we do know is there is one random build of the operating system, apparently installed on an Italian LG Optimus 7 is floating around in the wild.
Microsoft might be working on creating a rival tablet operating system but that hasn't stopped the boys from Redmond bringing its Bing app to Apple's iPad. This is the fifth app which has come out of Microsoft for the iPhone/iOS platform, the other four being OneNote for iPhone, Bing for iPhone, Seadragon Mobile, and Microsoft Tag.
NoDo, the elusive Windows Phone 7 update that brings such liveliness as copy and paste to the platform has been rolling out slowly for a week or so now. The problem is, you need to wait for your particular carrier to deem you worthy of such a fantastic update, as if you haven't suffered enough. Now thanks to a clever chappy with a blog post, you too can copy and paste to your heart's content.
Kinect sure has been to places it wasn't designed for. Such is the power of hacking the devices and using them to your benefit. We have previously seen Kinect hacked to work with PlayStation 3. Not just that, some clever folks took just 24 hours to turn GMail's April fools joke into a working reality using Kinect, and much more.
We're actually surprised it took someone this long, but just 24 hours after Google's brilliant Gmail Motion April Fools joke appeared, it's been turned into reality.
With Windows 8 getting closer to the finished article and getting into more hands each day, it was always inevitable leaks would happen. Today we're treated to a picture of the new Windows 8 wallpaper.
